Reviews

“ELVIS AND THE BLUE MOON CONSPIRACY is bar none the most enjoyable historical fiction satire on the market today – I guarantee it.”

George Zimmer, The Men’s Warehouse

Here’s a blurb that appeared in Midwest Book Review

ELVIS AND THE BLUE MOON CONSPIRACY

Robert O. Barclay
Reviewer

Elvis and the Blue Moon Conspiracy begins in 1999 with a series of Elvis sightings, the sort that appear in the tabloids on a regular basis–the ones that tell us that Elvis is still alive. Then we are swept back in time to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where two top planners for NASA are discussing preparations for the Apollo 11 launch. The two are talking over cocktails and worrying about the upcoming walk on the moon. One says: “we need to guarantee that mankind is witness to the Super Bowl of historic events.” How will they do this? They’ll put Elvis on the moon–what else? As improbable as this may seem, these two begin seriously to put their plan into action.This is not great literature, but it is definitely entertaining. I give it high marks for originality and can honestly recommend it to anyone looking to put a little silliness into their lives. Smile it’s good for you.

Next we have a flashback to 1960, to a remote Maasai village in Tanzania. Because the Maasai have become so enamored with the music of Elvis, Moja, one of the tribesmen, decides to carve a two foot ivory statue of “The King”. This sacred idol becomes a symbol for the village and through a complex set of events, which includes a National Geographic photographer named Scott Richter, the statue makes its way back to America where it ends up in the Jungle room at Graceland.

Now the story shifts to New York City where we meet an ambitious young reporter, Dani Mitchell, who is looking for her next story. She works for a tabloid called, The Sensational Nation and has just gotten special recognition for her exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama. Her next assignment is to Graceland where she is viciously cut off by Peter Dixon’s limo, one of the two men plotting to put Elvis on the moon. Now we have the beginnings of a wonderful romp in never-land. The whole idea of Elvis on the moon is patently absurd, but the author has peppered his story with enough real facts and detail to make you want to believe it–at least some of the time. The reader will enjoy meeting a wide variety of delightfully crazy characters. In fact one of them is actually committed to a mental hospital in upper state New York.

The writing is sound, the story is fun, the characters are complex, and the idea is certainly original. If you’ve ever been intrigued by all those conspiracy theories that are constantly emblazoned on the pages of the supermarket tabloids this will be an interesting read.

I know that I’ll probably be burned at the stake for heresy, but Elvis was not my favorite singer. Oh, I’ll admit that he is an American icon who changed the music industry and I’ll admit to enjoying some of his movies when I was a youngster, but I certainly didn’t get all goose-bumpy at the mention of his name. Still, I read Elvis and the Blue Moon Conspiracy with delight and got a good chuckle out of the ending when the author reveals the “real” story behind JFK and the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe.

Buy it here!